6.  Mr Aleksandr Kondratyevich Komar was born in 1942. Mr Yevgeniy Leonidovich Tsysyuk was born in 1980. Mr Sergey Leonidovich Tsysyuk was born in 1977. Mr Vadim Alekseyevich Maltsev was born in 1968. Mr Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Mikhaylenko was born in 1957. Mr Vladimir Aleksandrovich Serdyuk was born in 1951. Ms Nina Timofeyevna Maltseva was born in 1938. Messrs Mikhaylenko and Serdyuk reside in the village of Grodovka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. The other applicants reside in the town of Novogrodovka, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
7.  The applicants instituted separate sets of proceedings in the Novogrodovskiy Town Court, seeking recovery of salary arrears and other payments from their former employer, the State-owned “Novogrodovskaya 1/3” Mining Company.
8.  By judgment of 27 March 2001 Mr Komar was awarded UAH 4,851.43. In 2004 the judgment was enforced by instalments, the final amount being paid on 12 May 2004. The length of enforcement proceedings in his case was therefore more than three years and one month.
9.  By judgments of 17 April 2002 Messrs Yevgeniy Tsysyuk and Sergey Tsysyuk were awarded UAH 1,903.61 and 1,510.99 respectively. In 2004 the judgments were enforced by instalments, the final amounts being paid to Mr Yevgeniy Tsysyuk on 9 August 2004 and to Mr Sergey Tsysyuk on 23 September 2004. The enforcement proceedings in their cases lasted more than 2 years and 3 months and more than 2 years and 5 months respectively.
10.  By judgment of 11 May 2001 Mr Maltsev was awarded UAH 5,757.87. The judgment was enforced in August 2004, the length of enforcement being about 3 years and 3 months.
11.  By judgment of 6 April 2001 Mr Mikhaylenko was awarded UAH 7,320.37. The judgment was enforced in August 2004, the length of enforcement being more than 3 years and 4 months.
12.  By judgment of 12 April 2001 Mr Serdyuk was awarded UAH 6,672.89. The judgment was enforced in August 2004, the length of enforcement being more than 3 years and 4 months.
13.  By judgment of 11 May 2001 Ms Maltseva was awarded UAH 2,751.01. The judgment was enforced in August 2004, the length of enforcement being more than 3 years and 3 months.
14.  Pending the enforcement of the judgments in their favour, the applicants instituted separate sets of proceedings in the Novogrodivskiy Town Court of the Donetsk Region against the Novogrodivskiy Town Bailiffs’ Service for failure to execute these judgments. The Town Court rejected the applicants’ claims, finding no fault had been committed by that Service. The court stated that the Bailiffs’ Service had presented a decision of the Commercial Court of the Donetsk Region of 30 August 2000 to the respondent company. This decision prohibited the enforcement of judgments against the company by selling its property, due to the bankruptcy proceedings which had been initiated against it. The decisions of the Town Court were subsequently appealed against but all of the appeals were rejected.
15.  On 26 December 2001 the ban on the forced sale of assets belonging to undertakings in which the State holds at least 25% of the share capital was entrenched in the Law on the Introduction of a Moratorium on the Forced Sale of Property. On 10 June 2003 the Constitutional Court found the moratorium to be compatible with the provisions of the Constitution.